CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS:
1. When you need your job and your kids need you
2. What happens to family policies like child care, paid leave now?
3. The Return of Holiday Season Agita
4. As the Holidays Approach, Family Rifts, Tensions, and Estrangements Are Top of Mind for Millions of Americans
OTHER NEWS:
5. Backdrop for Vote on Same-Sex Marriage Rights: A Big Shift in Public Opinion
6. Study Reveals How Stress Colors Our View Of Our Partners (It’s Not Pretty)
7. Is it Alzheimer’s? Families want to know, and blood tests may offer answers.
8. Study finds ‘huge’ increase in children going to the emergency room with suicidal thoughts
9. The American middle class is at the end of an era
10. LGB youth more likely to experience trauma, research shows
11. The loneliest states in America
NEW ON THE CCF BLOG:
12. Understanding Black Queer Male Survivors’ Experiences of Sexual Assault
13. Mine and Yours, or Ours: Are All Egalitarian Relationships Equal?
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1. When you need your job and your kids need you
https://think.kera.org/2022/08/29/when-you-need-your-job-and-your-kids-need-you/
Low-income parents often don’t have the luxury of paid family leave. Maureen Perry-Jenkins, professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the working conditions of parents who must return to work weeks after giving birth and the challenges they face raising healthy children.
2. What happens to family policies like child care, paid leave now?
https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/13/23447548/what-happens-to-family-policies-like-child-care-paid-leave-now
The Deseret News asked experts across the political spectrum what they expect for family policy given midterm results.
3. The Return of Holiday Season Agita
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/16/opinion/holiday-travel-thanksgiving-christmas.html
4. As the Holidays Approach, Family Rifts, Tensions, and Estrangements Are Top of Mind for Millions of Americans
https://www.mariashriversundaypaper.com/as-the-holidays-approach-family-rifts-tensions-and-estrangements-are-top-of-mind-for-millions-of-americans-joshua-coleman/
Family Psychologist Dr. Joshua Coleman has tips for how to move forward
5. Backdrop for Vote on Same-Sex Marriage Rights: A Big Shift in Public Opinion
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/16/us/politics/same-sex-marriage-public-opinion.html
Seven in 10 Americans say marriage between same-sex couples should be recognized by law.
6. Study Reveals How Stress Colors Our View Of Our Partners (It’s Not Pretty)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/personal-stress-negative-view-of-partner/
New research examines how unrelated stress can accumulate and eventually spill over into your relationship.
7. Is it Alzheimer’s? Families want to know, and blood tests may offer answers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/17/alzheimers-blood-test-research-treatment/
Simple blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease, long coveted by doctors and researchers, have hit the market, representing a potentially powerful tool to help diagnose the devastating, memory-robbing illness, which afflicts 6.5 million Americans.
8. Study finds ‘huge’ increase in children going to the emergency room with suicidal thoughts
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/health/suicide-er-visits-kids/index.html
There has been a steady increase in the number of children who are seen in emergency rooms for suicidal thoughts, according to a new study – and the increase started even before the Covid-19 pandemic, which brought record high demand for psychological services for children.
9. The American middle class is at the end of an era
https://fortune.com/2022/11/02/american-middle-class-losing-wealth/amp/
The American middle class is experiencing the biggest wealth drop since the Great Recession.
10. LGB youth more likely to experience trauma, research shows
https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2022/11/18/lgb-youth-more-likely-to-experience-trauma-research-shows
Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) youth are far more likely to attempt suicide, plan a suicide attempt or have suicidal thoughts, according to new research from the University of Georgia.
11. The loneliest states in America
https://fortune.com/well/2022/11/14/ranked-the-loneliest-states-in-america/
12. Understanding Black Queer Male Survivors’ Experiences of Sexual Assault
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2022/11/15/understanding-black-queer-male-survivors-experiences-of-sexual-assault/
13. Mine and Yours, or Ours: Are All Egalitarian Relationships Equal?
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2022/11/08/mine-and-yours-or-ours-are-all-egalitarian-relationships-equal/
